This chapter will provide an overview of language and gender research in the Chinese
context prior to the 1980s to the most recent work in the 2010s, covering a wide range of …

30 Charles Ettner number are women. It is, therefore, unfortunate that little has been written
on gender in Chinese language. As a partial remedy, in this chapter several informative …

Research on language and gender interaction is well into its third decade and yet there
have been surprisingly few contributions from the Chinese language to the explosion of …

The significance of the encoding of sex and gender for questions about the relationship
between language and culture, and between language and thought, is just beginning to be …

In response to various efforts to rid language of sexism,'KK Ruthven, a self-styled male
feminist, writes," The phenomena feminists are concerned with have little to do with linguistic …

Conclusion The analysis of Chinese characters, idioms, and semantic placements provides
the context for understanding the historical construction of gender roles, images, and ideas …

Japanese language is often referred to as a prime example of a language with “true” sex
differences. Women's language and men's language within the Japanese are frequently …

The paper discusses the sexist portrayal of women in Mandarin Chinese. It begins with a
study of asymmetries in the lexicon; eg naming conventions, address terms, abuse terms …

Free from gender agreement and linguistic gender markers, the Chinese language system
does not have any inflexion, derivation, infix, or prefix. Thus, it may give a false impression …

English In the past thirty years, major contributions from Japanese language and gender
studies have provided necessary insights from the perspective of a non-European language …